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Peasant
- noun - a country person
- a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement
- one of a (chiefly European) class of agricultural laborers
Peccant
- adjective - liable to sin; "a frail and peccable mortal"- Sir Walter Scott
Peccary
- noun - nocturnal gregarious pig-like wild animals of North America and South America
Peccavi
- - I have sinned; -- used colloquially to express confession or acknowledgment of an offense; -- used rarely, superseded by the approximate equivalent mea culpa.
Pedlars
- noun - someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the streets or at carnivals)
Pedrail
- - A device intended to replace the wheel of a self-propelled vehicle for use on rough roads and to approximate to the smoothness in running of a wheel on a metal track. The tread consists of a number of rubber shod feet which are connected by ball-and-socket joints to the ends of sliding spokes. Each spoke has attached to it a small roller which in its turn runs under a short pivoted rail controlled by a powerful set of springs. This arrangement permits the feet to accomodate themselves to obstacles even such as steps or stairs. The pedrail was invented by one B. J. Diplock of London, Eng. (b) A vehicle, as a traction engine, having such pedrails.
Peerage
- noun - the peers of a kingdom considered as a group
Pellaea
- noun - genus of chiefly small rock-loving ferns; in some classification systems it is placed in the family Polypodiaceae or Adiantaceae